PHIL COLLINS: HOW I GOT THE GENESIS AUDIENCES LAUGHING

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Phil Collins reveals how he discovered that stand-up comedy routines could sustain the attention of Genesis audiences during breaks in the songs.
He was influenced by such comedy heroes as Steve Martin and Robin Williams.
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[@WintersWar]

John, I can tell you are enormous Genesis fan, because you ask the questions a fan naturally would. Great interviews.

[@jcmanc72]

Phil has always been great with the audience. Remember on a solo gig when he jokingly told a bloke in the crowd to f*ck off when he shouted “Do Invisible Touch!”

[@jipangoo]

He's a funny geezer. When i met him in a restaurant in 1985 he looked like a pile of creased washing. He was unshaven and yet.... An absolute gentleman! Lovely lovely man.

[@realrael3550]

He surely is a lovely man.

[@jimw6659]

I miss the band so much - thank you for keeping the flame flickering, John!

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My pleasure!

[@RaysTrack]

Phil transformed my life. I didn't hear Genesis on record until 1979 when someone loaned me Seconds Out. I was hooked and got into the back catalogue. As a guy of similar build to Phil but rather introverted, I was struggling in my career as a team manager. Lennon said he aped people he admired ("if they wore green socks, so would I"). I started to adopt Phil's persona, jokes and assertiveness and my career was transformed. Thank you Phil. :-)

[@booshting3520]

And there I was thinking John had run out of Genesis stuff 😅. Thanks again.

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You're welcome!

[@martinschwartz2512]

Hope there’s more! 🙏

[@rk41gator]

Phil's charisma was palatable on stage. It was surprising, charming. He seemed to bring each of us onto the stage and we felt he was speaking directly to us. His humor was clearly was tongue-in-cheek and we felt we too were 'in on it'. We (and he) were part of the joke, never the brunt of it. Amazing connection. He was so relaxed, confident, and direct. And isn't that what it is all about?

[@mrsappletree888]

Wohooo 🎉 How I love his attitude in the 80‘s concerts. The hyper Duracell bunny 😂 I love every minute of it!!! Thanks for sharing another precious moment with the man himself ❤

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Glad you enjoyed it !

[@nederlanditism1154]

The irony might be that Genesis' most relatable, amiable, honest, not having plots or second agendas up his sleeve member - the guy who single-handedly guaranteed the audience success the (original) members (at the time) were so desperately after - always sounds slightly as if he're on the back foot, as if he did things wrong, as if there were things he still has to apologize for. I'd appreciate it enormously if there could be a talk about Brand X with him. The versatility of this mate is rarely exulted at as courtesy proper demands.

[@pasi8800]

Wow, you still got material from the Sum of the Parts interviews?! That's awesome. Thank you once again.

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More to come!

[@sirgilmour]

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES It like xmas morning when a new footage is out

[@abundantYOUniverse]

I cant thank you enough for these, I have learned more about my favorite band and people than I ever did anywhere else. Thank you!

[@johnh3]

Great to see that Phil trusts you enough to let a few secrets out. Thanks for sharing these gems with us John.

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Cheers!

[@cosmicdrifter287]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉Yesterday i bought the Both sides cd in a thriftstore.Can't believe i missed it first time around,maybe because i listened to some critics at the time.Great album!

[@seanpatrickaustin]

"And now the stadium is hovering 30 feet above the carpark..... IT IS!" Classic Phil.

[@SYLVIE23]

Hello, you interviewed these wonderful boys at home a priori. They felt more comfortable confiding in delicious secrets. Could you in your turn tell us their attitude, distant or happy to talk about them, the atmosphere in the living room, the cafes they offered you! In truth, I am clearly jealous (Tony ♥️!!!). Thank you very much from France 🇫🇷)

[@santibanks]

Nice one John! It's interesting to see how this thing completely evolved. On the Trick and W&W tour, the announcement duties were still shared with Mike and Steve though it is clear that during W&W he became very confident in his role and started to have fun with it (including announcing and telling his stories and jokes in foreign languages). From ATTW3 on it was only him doing the announcements. The Duke tour was especially fabulous as in the UK they usually played theatre like settings. The interactions with the crowd are great and the way he continuously deals with hecklers is funny, though the jokes would not always land that well, often when he tries them abroad in foreign languages and is limited to just a few words to do them. I think the Duke Tour was Phil at his height regarding this because the setting of the smaller venues really allowed for some personal touch with the audience. Recordings from the London Lyceum and Sheffield shows are great. Though personally, I do think that some of his jokes from that era would be considered really inappropriate by today's standards and might even got him cancelled (Roland the bi-sexual drummachine, transvestites only, etc.). After Duke, the stages became large again where some of that personal touch was lost, peaking of course with the stadium tours where you see people as far as the eye could see. It was nice though that he didn't do the audience participation stuff etc. on the last tour. If you've heard or seen it so many times, it becomes too predictable and a cliché. So good he kept it simple (in my personal opinion of course, maybe some audience members were dissapointed they couldn't whooo at spirits for Home by the sea).

[@mickyshelesky6087]

Fun interview….. hearing his views from the stage

[@rk41gator]

Love that impish, side look and sly smile. Pure Phil!

[@marecl]

👏🏻👏🏻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This is truly great John. I so love your interviews. Love how you've intermixed the live snippets into this. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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Thank you ! Great to get your wonderfully enthusiastic comments !

[@twostikks1]

Phil had some huge shoes to fill. So, yeah, he “borrowed” from the best, Steve Martin. When he played with Brand X In ‘79, he’s talking to the audience. Those were smaller venues, and the audience members were a bit more rambunctious and would like to prove that they knew about the Brand X catalogue by shouting out song titles and all, so at one point (on the live from 1979 release), Phil is talking to the crowd and someone shouts something out, and without missing a beat, Phil says, “oh, hey, I remember MY first beer…” Pure Steve Martin, but PERFECT timing! I’m surprised he didn’t wanna mention that in this interview, maybe he was trying to remember that one bit - because it really was funny! But that’s exactly what he was doing, channeling Steve Martin, and it worked brilliantly. 😊

[@rhythmfield]

John, I’m truly enjoying your interviews and footage with Phil and his bandmates, who are really important in the lives of the fans. But a bit of surprise on my part here over a glaring omission in this discussion: Phil’s background in musical theater & acting & stagecraft: Phil was a young stage actor and musical theater entertainer as a teenager, wasn’t he? It actually really surprises me that Phil does not tie that background into his clowning and goading of the crowds - this style of theatrical communication - the complete body language - almost a dance of communication, using arms, erect posture, prancing around the stage… I am a singing drummer with a theater background myself, I can really tie it all together here, at least in my own mind - so it really surprises me that both interviewer and interviewee didn’t touch upon that even a little bit… Or had you,. and it was edited out?

[@WintersWar]

They had epic music and Phil had an exceptional connection with the crowd. They could not go wrong. stalling or not.

[@shelaghnigans]

Made my day to see you’d posted another clip, John - thank you so much for these! Loved seeing the old concert footage, too - 12:02: quintessential Phil. :)

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Great to know you enjoyed this so much !

[@StBlazeyModelWorld]

Another great clip john. Thank you for asking Phil something get rarely, if ever, gets asked. When I emailed you about my brief connection with Phil the real point was that he is a normal person, who is successful at what he does. There is no pretence and that is why his stage presence worked I think. It did for me anyway.

[@mandya.6819]

Und jedes Mal lässt du mein Herz etwas schneller schlagen, und ich freue mich wie ein kleines Kind, wenn du etwas neues aus deiner Schatzkiste zauberst..😍. Vielen Dank dafür....schön das es dich gibt 👍🤗. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland.

[@direnova6284]

I was at Wembley and it was spectacular both visually and definitely very powerful musically, the only other band who had that power of production was Floyd. You felt the Mothership had landed.

[@robertrice8397]

I always thought Phill was funny. I think he could of hosted SNL in the 80's-90's.

[@johndyslin798]

Any chances of getting new Phil interviews after the success of their final tour, his son playing drums and respective of his career?

[@mrsappletree888]

Perfectly symbiosis 🤘🤘🤘

[@RickCT2000]

Sensational!

[@mikearchibald744]

" I had no problem with Phil mugging and even clowning, I just don't think it was very musical"-Peter Gabriel Thats an 'inside joke'.

[@koenraadhendrik]

I love these interviews but I’m not a fan of the old concert footage cut in between. I’d rather see the interview uninterrupted. I think all the fans who are interested in these interviews know every official Phil Collins and Genesis concert video by heart. That being said, I love your channel and I’m very grateful that you’re sharing the interviews!

[@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES]

Thanks but I beg to disagree..I have learned never to assume who the KZbin audience for these interviews is I'll wager that some viewers were not even alive in the 80s . Older Genesis fans are great but I love new ones who are discovering all this material for the first time too !

[@MF-qv5ri]

we are genesis and playing Barry Manilow songs ohh dont leave nono ! jajajajhahahhahaah!!!!! SSSFunnyyyyyy

[@scottburns2600]

If you see Phil throughout the 80s, he was just "that way". He was acting in a goofy way and it transferred to the stage

[@scottblack9213]

Comparing this interview to the New York interview - Phil seems to have lost a little more weight and his voice seems more fragile and he certainly comes across more tired in this interview. Just my initial impression.

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Agreed. He was tired ..Just a month later than ny interview . He had flown to London and was jet lagged

[@scottblack9213]

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Tha k you for replying John, your channel is wonderful. Loving the long form unedited interviews.

[@sluggo3slug]

He seems so medicated. Not fun to watch and listen to.

[@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES]

Phil was jetlagged and taking pain medication. I interviewed him on this occasion for over two hours. Lots of fantastic insights and comments throughout.

[@danielduesentriebjunior]

He's constantly making these movements with his mouth, as if he is chewing something. His speech has become incoherent and slurred. He appears to be older than he actually is.

[@rapsody9546]

I have a friend who recently got a full set of bottom dentures and this is exactly how she talks and sounds. Maybe he had recently got dentures 🤷🏻‍♀️